March 27st Events |
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| March 27th, 2008 (March 27 2008) | Event | The state of Washington became the first state in the U.S. to offer an enhanced driver s license. | |
| March 27th, 2006 (March 27 2006) | Event | The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting. | |
| March 27th, 2004 (March 27 2004) | Event | HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. | |
| March 27th, 2002 (March 27 2002) | Event | Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel. | |
| March 27th, 2000 (March 27 2000) | Event | Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas. | |
| March 27th, 1998 (March 27 1998) | Event | The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. | |
| March 27th, 1994 (March 27 1994) | Event | One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90. | |
| March 27th, 1994 (March 27 1994) | Event | The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany. | |
| March 27th, 1993 (March 27 1993) | Event | Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People s Republic of China. | |
| March 27th, 1990 (March 27 1990) | Event | The United States begins broadcasting TV Marti to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime. | |
| March 27th, 1986 (March 27 1986) | Event | A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people. | |
| March 27th, 1980 (March 27 1980) | Event | The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. | |
| March 27th, 1977 (March 27 1977) | Event | Tenerife disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 247 on KLM and 335 on PAN AM) and 61 survived on a PAN AM flight. | |
| March 27th, 1976 (March 27 1976) | Event | The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens. | |
| March 27th, 1970 (March 27 1970) | Event | The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight. | |
| March 27th, 1969 (March 27 1969) | Event | Mariner 7 is launched. | |
| March 27th, 1968 (March 27 1968) | Event | Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut, first human in space dies in aircraft training accident. | Yuri Gagarin Quotes |
| March 27th, 1964 (March 27 1964) | Event | The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. | |
| March 27th, 1963 (March 27 1963) | Event | Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom s rail network. | |
| March 27th, 1958 (March 27 1958) | Event | Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| March 27th, 1948 (March 27 1948) | Event | The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened. | |
| March 27th, 1945 (March 27 1945) | Event | World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan s ports and waterways begins. | |
| March 27th, 1943 (March 27 1943) | Event | World War II: Battle of the Komandorski IslandsIn the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. | |
| March 27th, 1941 (March 27 1941) | Event | World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup. | |
| March 27th, 1938 (March 27 1938) | Event | The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place. | |
| March 27th, 1918 (March 27 1918) | Event | Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania. | |
| March 27th, 1910 (March 27 1910) | Event | Fire during a barn-dance in Okoritofulpos, Hungary, killed 312 | |
| March 27th, 1906 (March 27 1906) | Event | Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba | |
| March 27th, 1890 (March 27 1890) | Event | A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200. | |
| March 27th, 1881 (March 27 1881) | Event | Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army. | |
| March 27th, 1871 (March 27 1871) | Event | The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. | |
| March 27th, 1868 (March 27 1868) | Event | The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York. | |
| March 27th, 1854 (March 27 1854) | Event | Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia. | |
| March 27th, 1851 (March 27 1851) | Event | First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley. | |
| March 27th, 1846 (March 27 1846) | Event | Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas. | |
| March 27th, 1836 (March 27 1836) | Event | Texas Revolution: Goliad massacreAntonio Lopez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas. | |
| March 27th, 1836 (March 27 1836) | Event | Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon. | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| March 27th, 1834 (March 27 1834) | Event | Andrew Jackson is censured by the U.S. Senate for his actions regarding the U.S. National Bank. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
| March 27th, 1814 (March 27 1814) | Event | War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
| March 27th, 1794 (March 27 1794) | Event | The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. | |
| March 27th, 1794 (March 27 1794) | Event | Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact. | |
| March 27th, 1782 (March 27 1782) | Event | Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. | |
| March 27th, 1642 (March 27 1642) | Event | The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office. | |
| March 27th, 1625 (March 27 1625) | Event | Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. | |
| March 27th, 1613 (March 27 1613) | Event | The first English child born in Canada at Cuper s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy. | |
| March 27th, 1329 (March 27 1329) | Event | Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. | Meister Eckhart Quotes |
